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This is the latest in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities.

News briefs for April 3, 2019.

Up until now in this ongoing C programming tutorial series, we have briefly discussed the basics of pointers. There are, however, several more pointers related concepts that need to be discussed. So in this tutorial, we will be discussing the concept of pointers and arrays.

One of the things that can be "death by a thousand cuts" for any IT team's sanity and patience is constantly being asked to reset passwords. The best way we've found to handle this is to ditch your hashing algorithms and store your passwords in plaintext so that your users can retrieve them at any time. Ha! I am, of course, kidding. That's a terrible idea. When your users forget their passwords, you'll still need to reset them. But is there a way to break free from the monotonous, repetitive task of doing it manually? read more

Pip is a package manager for Python and lets you easily install packages from the Python Package Index. Learn how you can install Pip in Ubuntu.

Today the KDE Project released the fourth of five maintenance updates to its latest and greatest KDE Plasma 5.15 desktop environment series, version 5.15.4.

Shopware Community Edition is a free and open-source e-commerce application. As an alternative to another e-commerce application, like Magento, Shopware is a complete e-commerce solution – it is a very powerful and flexible application. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Shopware CE on a VPS running Ubuntu 18.04.

The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Fedora 30 Beta, the next big step on our journey to the exciting Fedora 30 release. Download the prerelease from our Get Fedora site.

The Fedora Project announced today the immediate availability of the beta release of the upcoming Fedora 30 Linux operating system, which comes with major enhancements and new features.

In this article, we will describe two ways for you to find the saved passwords for your wireless connections, through Ubuntu Settings Utility (UI) and through the Terminal application (command line).

We feel in the mood to celebrate. Free 25th Anniversary Issue of Linux Journal for everyone! Follow the link to get yours:.

Chef realigns its product portfolio and strategy to be 100 percent open-source, as it moves away from open-core model in an effort to help advance software automation.

News briefs for April 2, 2019.

Arne Exton has updated his Android-x86-based AndEX project to the latest Android 9.0 Pie mobile operating system, which now lets users run Android 9 Pie on their personal computers.

For over 10 years, VMware was accused of illegally using Linux code in its VMware ESX bare-metal virtual machine hypervisor. After a German court dismissed the case, the Linux programmer behind the lawsuit has called it a day.

In preparation for taking the Linux Professional Institute Certification exam LPI-302 for systems administrators, learn how to set up and store passwords, integrate Samba with LDAP, and use ACLs to protect your Linux installation.

Linux Journal's very first issue featured an interview between LJ's first Publisher, Robert Young (who went on to co-found Red Hat among other things), and Linus Torvalds (author of the Linux kernel). After 25 years, we thought it'd be interesting to get the two of them together again. You can read that first interview from 1994 here.

Curl is a command line tool that allows you to transfer data from or to a remote server. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Curl on Ubuntu 18.04.

Samba uses Trivial Database files to store both persistent and temporary data as part of its job integrating file and print sharing between Linux and Windows. In preparation for the Linux Professional Institute Certification exam LPI-302, learn all about the Samba Trivial Database (TDB) format that Samba uses to store information, how to look inside TDB files, and how to back them up.

The Raspberry Pi foundation announced today the worldwide availability of the official keyboard and mouse input devices for its tiny Raspberry Pi computers.